ACTIVITY 4:

Make your demographic profile of older populations in the Philippines. Place

it in a graph and do your analysis on it. Make your conclusion and
Recommendation.

OLDER PERSONS IN THE PHILIPPINES: 1903-2020

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1903 1918 1939 1948 1960 1970 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020

year

In the Philippines, the number of populations under older persons specifically 65+
ages or the senior citizens is increasing rapidly through years.

HERE IS THE DATA POPULATION OF OLDER PERSONS FROM THE YEAR 1903-
2020:
 YEARS POPULATION VALUE
1903 MILLION
1918 MILLION
1939 MILLION
1948 MILLION
1960 MILLION
1970 MILLION
2000 4.57 MILLION
2005 5.13 MILLION
2010 6.24 MILLION
2015 7.55 MILLION
2020 9.43 MILLION

In conclusion , older citizens in the Philippines has their own population, it is increasing
rapidly through years so I recommend that we need to have more facility for older
person and many of families don’t want took care of there grandparents, they want too
have care like they use to it.
 Activity 5

1. Care of the older person today is considerably different that it was 50 years ago. Cite
examples of how and why the care of older person is different today than it was in the
past.
- The care of older person has a bis different before and today Most older Filipinos have
average self-rated health (48%). Overall, females have better self-rated health than males, with
the level declining with advancing age. OPs have a more positive assessment of their health
whilst growing up, with 68% claiming to have been extremely healthy and 23% reporting having
been healthier than average. The state of oral health of older Filipinos is poor, based on the
criteria of 9 original teeth retained, with males having significantly more (11) than females (8).
The mean decreases with age, from 11 amongst those aged 60–69 to 5 amongst those aged 80+.
In all, 28% of older Filipinos are completely edentulous or have no remaining original teeth; the
proportion is higher amongst females (35%) than males (17%) and increases monotonically with
age. Close to half (47%) of those in their 80s have no remaining original teeth. About 3 in 10
older Filipinos reported having dentures.
2. When reporting for work, you note that you have been assigned to two 72-year-old
women for the evening. Is it safe to assume that the care of these two women will be
similar because they are the same age? Why or why not? How would their care be
enhanced or be compromised if they were treated similarly?
No because it is not because they the same of age maybe they have different types of
illness and different kind of care that they need many people has same age, but it has a different
illness. But first of all, we need the care of what they need like medication, love care what they
need
3. As student, you are often assigned to care for older person. At what point in your
education do you feel care of the older person should be included? Early in, later in, or
throughout your nursing program? Support your position.
As a student first of all we need to have a kind of patience to understand their personality
they have knowing what they need like medication attention love care as well as don’t let them
feel that they alone we need to feel them that we are there in good times and bad times.